Inconvenient truths: Vote theft and global warming
Having just watched the premier of Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,”
I couldn’t help but see the parallels between the global warming issue and the 2004 stolen presidential election. Gore related his attempts over the years to get Congress, the media and the public to believe that global warming is a crisis, only to be derided and discredited. Those of us who expose stolen elections often receive the same reaction – mostly from the media.
I had the privilege of seeing Vice President Gore’s presentation live at the Ohio State University on April 16, 2004. So it was no surprise when I heard theatergoers gasp as Gore presented the scientific evidence for global warming. The charts, the graphs, the pictures – all make a clear and convincing case.
My forthcoming book, with co-editors Harvey Wasserman and Steve Rosenfeld entitled What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election (New Press), attempts to put the issue of Ohio’s 2004 election in a similar light.
I had the privilege of seeing Vice President Gore’s presentation live at the Ohio State University on April 16, 2004. So it was no surprise when I heard theatergoers gasp as Gore presented the scientific evidence for global warming. The charts, the graphs, the pictures – all make a clear and convincing case.
My forthcoming book, with co-editors Harvey Wasserman and Steve Rosenfeld entitled What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election (New Press), attempts to put the issue of Ohio’s 2004 election in a similar light.
Blackwell, black votes and God's will in the Buckeye State
The eyes of the nation are once again focused on Ohio thanks in part to Robert F. Kennedy's epic essay in the June 15 Rolling Stone, entitled "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" Kenneth F. Bunting, the Associate Publisher of the Seattle Post-Intellligencer, wrote that the article essentially is "singling out Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell for much of the blame, . . ." Blackwell, never one to be an easy target, recently fingered William Anthony, the Franklin County Democratic Party Chair and Chair of the county's board of elections, as the real culprit. Blackwell told a group of black ministers in Cleveland that the long waits to vote on November 2, 2004 in Columbus were due to the black Democrat, Anthony.
The target: Black votes
The target: Black votes
Drexel gateway to host panel discussion featuring consultant on An Inconvenient Truth
In conjunction with the opening of the new film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, the Drexel Gateway Theatre will host a panel discussion on global warming issues with a group of local environmental experts. The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday, June 21st immediately following the 7:00 p.m. screening of the film. The panel participants include Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, OSU School of Earth Sciences and Senior Research Scientist, OSU Byrd Polar Research Center; Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Distinguished University Scholar, OSU Department of Geography and Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center; Jed Thorp, Conservation Organizer, The Sierra Club; Kurt Waltzer, Clean Air Strategy Specialist, Ohio Environmental Council and Harvey Wasserman, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace USA and Columbus Free Press Senior Editor.
Make Blackwell tell
At the end of April, news reports detailed that Ken Blackwell's Secretary of State office distributed voter files with millions of Social Security numbers included.
This wasn't the first time Blackwell's office had shared social security numbers - only a few weeks earlier, it was discovered that the Secretary of State's website contained Social Security numbers of people who had filled out a certain business form with his office. Those numbers were open and available to anyone who searched for them, and Blackwell had to find a way to take them off of this site after a suit was filed against him.
Both of these breaches affected citizens all across this state, people who trusted the Secretary of State's office with valuable personal information and found that trust betrayed.
This wasn't the first time Blackwell's office had shared social security numbers - only a few weeks earlier, it was discovered that the Secretary of State's website contained Social Security numbers of people who had filled out a certain business form with his office. Those numbers were open and available to anyone who searched for them, and Blackwell had to find a way to take them off of this site after a suit was filed against him.
Both of these breaches affected citizens all across this state, people who trusted the Secretary of State's office with valuable personal information and found that trust betrayed.
Remembering Steve Conliff
Steve was always the one who'd get the rest of us out of jail. He had a knack for slipping away just before the police closed in, to find the lawyers, round up bail, or whatever else it took. Must have sprung me a couple dozen times.
Just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, I'd gone out to pick up one of our folks stranded hitchiking in a massive thunderstorm 30 miles out. I got lost, and in attempting a 3 point turn, got my van stuck in a yard in Raytown. The homeowner came out, naturally upset that my spinning wheels were chewing up his lawn. By this time I'd blown the radiator and flattened a tire, he called the cops, and I was hauled downtown on a damage to property charge.
Raytown was national headquarters for the Minutemen, not directly related to the anti-immigration zealots of today, but in their rabid anti-communism a similar social set, and this was reflected in their localpllitical establishment. The Raytown cops had such a bad reputation that the Kansas City Police Chief had not included them in his callup of suburban departments for Convention duty.
Just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, I'd gone out to pick up one of our folks stranded hitchiking in a massive thunderstorm 30 miles out. I got lost, and in attempting a 3 point turn, got my van stuck in a yard in Raytown. The homeowner came out, naturally upset that my spinning wheels were chewing up his lawn. By this time I'd blown the radiator and flattened a tire, he called the cops, and I was hauled downtown on a damage to property charge.
Raytown was national headquarters for the Minutemen, not directly related to the anti-immigration zealots of today, but in their rabid anti-communism a similar social set, and this was reflected in their localpllitical establishment. The Raytown cops had such a bad reputation that the Kansas City Police Chief had not included them in his callup of suburban departments for Convention duty.
Update on the case of Carol Fisher
The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
No Police State!
Carol Fisher is a 54 year old woman who was putting up "Bush Step Down" posters on telephones in Cleveland Heights. For this, she was assaulted by police, charged and convicted of 2 counts of felony assault on police officers. Carol is now in the Cuyohoga County Jail. On June 2, Judge Timothy McGinty sentenced her to 2 months in jail, 2 years probation with community service and mandatory "anger management classes."
This is an outrage! An appeal of her conviction has been filed by her attorneys.
This case has been reported on extensively in the Cleveland Free Times, The Sun Press, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and websites and blogs around the world.
A Fact Sheet on this case, complete coverage and updates available at www.worldcantwait.org
June 2, 2006 Sentencing Day:
No Police State!
Carol Fisher is a 54 year old woman who was putting up "Bush Step Down" posters on telephones in Cleveland Heights. For this, she was assaulted by police, charged and convicted of 2 counts of felony assault on police officers. Carol is now in the Cuyohoga County Jail. On June 2, Judge Timothy McGinty sentenced her to 2 months in jail, 2 years probation with community service and mandatory "anger management classes."
This is an outrage! An appeal of her conviction has been filed by her attorneys.
This case has been reported on extensively in the Cleveland Free Times, The Sun Press, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and websites and blogs around the world.
A Fact Sheet on this case, complete coverage and updates available at www.worldcantwait.org
June 2, 2006 Sentencing Day:
Judge McGinty threatens to send Carol Fisher to jail on June 2
Carol Fisher, an activist with "The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush
Regime," will be sentenced this Friday, June 2 at 10 am in the courtroom
of Judge Timothy McGinty, on the 21st floor of the Justice Center in
downtown Cleveland.
Ms. Fisher was convicted on April 28 of 2 counts of assaulting police officers in Cleveland Heights for putting up posters which read "Bush Step Down." This case been covered in the Cleveland Free Times, Sun Press, the Plain Dealer, along with radio shows and blogs all over the country. For background on the case, go to:
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1635&Itemid=61
She is facing a maximum of three years in jail with a fine of several thousand dollars. After the guilty verdict, Judge McGinty told her, "When you come to the sentencing, be prepared to apologize and admit you were wrong, or bring your toothbrush - you are going to jail." Judge McGinty repeated these threats to her attorneys yesterday.
Ms. Fisher was convicted on April 28 of 2 counts of assaulting police officers in Cleveland Heights for putting up posters which read "Bush Step Down." This case been covered in the Cleveland Free Times, Sun Press, the Plain Dealer, along with radio shows and blogs all over the country. For background on the case, go to:
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1635&Itemid=61
She is facing a maximum of three years in jail with a fine of several thousand dollars. After the guilty verdict, Judge McGinty told her, "When you come to the sentencing, be prepared to apologize and admit you were wrong, or bring your toothbrush - you are going to jail." Judge McGinty repeated these threats to her attorneys yesterday.
Judge orders World Can't Wait activist to jail psyche unit; Carol Fisher remains strong and unapologetic
May 9: Judge Timothy McGinty forcibly incarcerated Carol Fisher in the
pyche unit of the Cuyahoga Country Jail in downtown Cleveland, where she
now sits for an indefinate period of time.
In a hastily called hearing yesterday, Judge McGinty made a highly unusual and outrageous decision to force Carol to undergo a state pyschological exam as part of her pre-sentencing investigation. From the very start of Carol's case, the judge has openly said that she must have mental problems for resisting an unlawful and brutal encounter with Cleveland Heights police. He went even further in yesterday's hearing, saying that her opposition to the Bush regime makes her "dillusional."
The small courtroom on the 21st floor of the Justice Center was ringed with 5 armed court baliffs. McGinty started off the hearing by making Carol stand up and had one of her attorneys read her t-shirt, which said:
"Wanted for Illegally Crossing Borders: The Bush Regime
In a hastily called hearing yesterday, Judge McGinty made a highly unusual and outrageous decision to force Carol to undergo a state pyschological exam as part of her pre-sentencing investigation. From the very start of Carol's case, the judge has openly said that she must have mental problems for resisting an unlawful and brutal encounter with Cleveland Heights police. He went even further in yesterday's hearing, saying that her opposition to the Bush regime makes her "dillusional."
The small courtroom on the 21st floor of the Justice Center was ringed with 5 armed court baliffs. McGinty started off the hearing by making Carol stand up and had one of her attorneys read her t-shirt, which said:
"Wanted for Illegally Crossing Borders: The Bush Regime
Remarks prepared for Annual Free Press Awards Dinner
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Pachtama?waas ahhki Anishinabeok.
In the tongue of my Grandma's people, Mohican: "The Great Spirit blesses the land where we, the people, live."
God bless America!
Pachtama'waas ahhki Anishinabeok.
This is Goats in Prison, Volume 1 of the Free Press archives project.
I?m dedicating this never-ending quest to my aunt and uncle Bernice and Arvid Miller from the Mohican Nation Library in Wisconsin. Some of you may remember Arvid from the last page of Custer Died for Your Sins. He helped found the National Congress of American Indians, the United Nations of tribal governments. After he died, their cabin caught fire and all the young people, who never seemed to care much before, formed a bucket brigade and saved their library. Bernice was my Daddy?s childhood friend, and best, along with Bill Coleman, Chief Buffalo from the Aleut Scouts, first American to contact Japanese ground forces. When Aunt Bernice retired the Tribe hired twelve people to do her jobs and now she?s passed leaving over 220 direct Mohican descendents.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Pachtama?waas ahhki Anishinabeok.
In the tongue of my Grandma's people, Mohican: "The Great Spirit blesses the land where we, the people, live."
God bless America!
Pachtama'waas ahhki Anishinabeok.
This is Goats in Prison, Volume 1 of the Free Press archives project.
I?m dedicating this never-ending quest to my aunt and uncle Bernice and Arvid Miller from the Mohican Nation Library in Wisconsin. Some of you may remember Arvid from the last page of Custer Died for Your Sins. He helped found the National Congress of American Indians, the United Nations of tribal governments. After he died, their cabin caught fire and all the young people, who never seemed to care much before, formed a bucket brigade and saved their library. Bernice was my Daddy?s childhood friend, and best, along with Bill Coleman, Chief Buffalo from the Aleut Scouts, first American to contact Japanese ground forces. When Aunt Bernice retired the Tribe hired twelve people to do her jobs and now she?s passed leaving over 220 direct Mohican descendents.
The League's primary election voter guide for Columbus, Ohio
Finally! Here's what we've been working on for the past several months: our new, fancy two-part voter guide, complete with color-by-numbers Ohio flag on the front. Enjoy!
http://columbus.indyvoter.org/
http://columbus.indyvoter.org/